Monday, November 12, 2007

Immigration 1 – Seamless planet

I want to start this discussion by looking at the planet, from space. It looks so seamless that one may wonder why can't humans move freely to the place of their choice? It probably is bad enough that almost everywhere human beings can own, thus control land, but that’s a fact that will be very hard to change. So what’s wrong about having some “have-not” moving around?
The next general idea is that we need to have these itinerants abide by local rules and laws, and financially participate to pay for their own impact in these areas that are not theirs; in so doing, they will contribute to the services they might use (administrative help, health care, education, other use of public infrastructure.) If that were to be the case, it seems that they should have the right to work, if work is in fact available.

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